100
Who is Charles Darwin?
He traveled to the Galapagos Islands on the HMS Beagle observed similar species suited to their environment.
100
What is evolution?
A long slow change in orgnaisms over time.
100
What are Fossils?
mineralized remains of organisms usually found in sedimentary rock.
100
What is die out and extinct?
When species lack the variations necessary to adapt to a changing environment.
100
Who is Linnaeus?
Swedish botanist that developed a two-word naming system.
200
Who is Malthus?
This person suggested that there would soon be insufficient food and living space for the growing population.
200
What is adaption?
Any inherited trait or characteristic that increases and organisms chances for survival.
200
What is Homologous Structures?
Structures that have similar embryological origin and structure but are adapted for different purposes.
200
What is behavioral Isolation?
Two populations are capabale of interbreeding but have differences in courtship rituals or other reproductive strategies that involve behavior.
200
What is kingdom?
The largest category of organisms with the fewest of traits in common.
300
Who is Lamarck?
He proposed that giraffes got their long necks form stretching?
300
What is mutation
Sudden change in the DNA sequence.
300
What is Evidence of evolution?
Fossil records, Geographical distribution, Homologous Structures, Vestigial organs, Similarities in Embryology.
300
What is geographic isolation?
Two populations are seperated by geographic barriers such as rivers, mountain, or other bodies of water.
400
Who is Hutton and Lyell?
Geologist that proposed Earth to be many millions of years old, older than anyone believed.
400
What is Gene pool?
Combined genetic make-up of all the members of a population.
400
What is vestigial structures
Appendix in humans, Leg Bones in whales.
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What is temporal isolation?
Two or more species reproduce at different times and therefore, cannot interbreed.
500
What is natural selection or survival of he fittest
Proccess by which individuals better suited to their environment can survive and reproduce most successfully.
500
What is artificial selection?
Process by which humans choose the most desirabletraits of a population for breeding purposes.
500
What is embryology?
The early stages of development in organism in which there are many similarities among different species.
500
What is Industrial Revolution?
The historical event in england caused tree trunks and buildings to blacken with soot allowing birds and other predators to hunt the light colored moths more easily






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